Hello, chieftains!
Update 0.52.0 improves your warriors' reactions, makes battles easier to read and brings performance improvements for larger settlements.
More responsive warriors
- Warriors react more reliably to nearby raiders while respecting their stance and your direct orders.
- Improved target selection and handling of enemies that cannot be reached.
- Archers can now attack enemies at close range.
- Double-click a warrior to select all selectable warriors of the same type across the map, including off-screen and tower units. Hold Shift to keep your current selection as well.
- Friendly warriors appear as green minimap markers and enemies as red markers. Both stay above ordinary icons and remain visible when ordinary marker layers are hidden.
Choose your lighting
A new Settings → Video → Lighting / Lumen switch lets you turn Lumen lighting and reflections off while keeping your other graphics settings.
Choose Apply & Save to keep your preference for future sessions. Lumen remains enabled by default and follows your selected quality preset; Low and Medium retain their simpler lighting.
Turning Lumen off uses simpler lighting and reflections and can help when your graphics card is the bottleneck. The scene can look darker, especially at night. Performance gains depend on your hardware and settlement.
Performance and interface fixes
- Reduced CPU overhead from worker updates, resource tracking, defences and villager movement, with fewer unnecessary background checks.
- More efficient resident-data and cargo-visual updates while retaining existing villager visuals and animation cadence.
- Fixed flickering in the Audio settings menu.
- Improved build-menu layout handling during loading.
- Expanded Steam Rich Presence with activities such as commanding troops, defending against raids, guild chat, production, trading and island editing, plus relevant population and calendar information.
Thank you for your feedback and bug reports!
DevSanja